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Natural Laws/Laws of Nature/Weinberg: natural laws or laws of nature are as real as chairs.
WeinbergVsPositivism.
Reality/Weinberg: reality is not under our control.
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Reality/Hacking, >
Prediction.
It is not about reality itself,...
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...but about the reality of the laws of nature. Genz pro: this is the central thesis of this book.
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Natural laws.
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Reality/Genz: a medium that is present everywhere, but has no measurable velocity, is real, but its reality is not a material one, but a summary of observable effects in the concept of a theory. Such a medium is the field.
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Fields/Genz.
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Field/acceleration/Genz: acceleration in opposition to the field can be observed. Newton had also suspected this from his empty space, but that would not have been true.
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Isaac Newton, >
Inertial system, >
Relativity theory.
The accelerated observer is embedded in a heat radiation that increases with increasing acceleration.
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Reality/terms/theory/Genz: thesis: it is the theories that give the terms a reality that expresses itself through correlations of basic sentences.
For example, bubble chamber: the bubble chamber interprets the electron as the set of properties of a trace of droplets.
Theory: the theory indicates the conditions under which an electron is generated.
Electron: an electron interpolated in the language of theory between basic sentences that are in an if-then context.
Understanding/Genz: understanding may include the existence of the electron.
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But we will never understand elementary particles as we understand macroscopic objects.
Elementary particles/Genz: elementary particles have properties that macroscopic objects do not have! If electrons were like chairs, they could not have the properties that are characteristic of them.
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Reality/Genz: reality is the reality of the laws, not an opinion. This reality is not one of the wordings by certain terms, but the interrelationships between base sentences, which imply the laws.
